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The Voice of the Century!
     From http://www.psusheela.org

Smt. P. Susheela is recognized as one of the greatest stars the world of south indian cinema has ever known and she has always had a high profile with a metrical stability in all of her renderings. She was an artist who scaled the heights and achieved a greatness that is only now coming to be fully appreciated. Her repertoire spans extensive recordings in all the major south Indian languages and are representative of the neglected audiography that she revived in the mind of the listener, that sense of wonder that was so central to the aesthetics of the various periods . To the music of G Ramanathan, C R Subburaman, S Rajeshwara Rao, Ghantasala, Pendyala and Susarla Dakshinamoorthy, Smt. Susheela brings vocal qualities of both romantic beauty and passionate fervour. Smt. Susheela was identified with the roles of heroines, which she sang shyly introducing herself to the poetic artistry of those early times.

On her colloboration with composers K V Mahadevan, Viswanathan Ramamurthy, Devarajan and later M S Viswanathan, her vocalize presents a well a rounded and totally convincing picture of Kannadasan’s immortal libretto’s, has been singled out as one of the finest gramophone achievements of all time. She performed the Marudhakasi/Kannadasan/Valli’s repertoire to great effect in the recording studio and on the celluloid. 

Her hypnotic ambient and silkily beautiful voice and the structure mirroring the inner turmoil in V Kumar/Shanker-Ganesh/Illaiyraaja compositions also proved an endless stimulus and source of inspiration for them , who enjoyed exploiting the descriptive possibilities of Smt. Susheela’s art making her the only communicative recitalist of times.

As well as comfortably encompassing the entire mezzo soprano range, Smt. Susheela’s voice in its distinctive lower and higher register was rich and powerful, enabling her convincingly to perform music written for other sopranos for she took great pains over their production and treated them as her own, in order to ensure their success, and also to ensure that the performances were faithful to the score. Her vocal lines is always rich in coloratura passages, serve as true representations of nature, but serve as metaphors to express the passions and sufferings of human characters.

Smt. Susheela can create a sense of turbulence which can break out directly in an aria or that determines the constant state of agitation. She does that so well by means of musical figurations which exploit every word in the literary text and exalt its dramatic meaning or by means of chromaticism and an almost unbroken line of semiquavers or add further pathos to a song whose slow progress expresses the burden of real tragedy.

Smt. Susheela’s reputation nowadays rests firmly on her renderings. In all her repertoire, both the composer and the mezzo can be seen to share the same ideas in their creative development, and their aims, the rediscovery of the true function of musicHer voice could be called as Rolls Royce and in particular when she unleashes it at full throttle, a continued high quality performance. But whenever she rendered a song, her limpid phrases and sumptuous timbre melted hearts of stone for sure. ©www.psusheela.org 

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